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Dominique Pagani takes up from Hegel the notion of negative freedom, which he presents as the freedom of the void: the possibility of abstracting oneself from every determination and fleeing every content, which is perceived as a restriction1. This is, in his view, what representation ordinarily takes to be freedom2. He links it to the understanding and not to reason. He distinguishes two forms of it: on the theoretical level, it corresponds to Hindu contemplation; on the practical level, it becomes fanaticism and a fury of destruction of every social order3. Turned towards action, it feels itself to exist only by destroying4. He specifies that it believes it wants a positive state, such as universal equality, but that it refuses every positive reality, because such a reality introduces an order and a determination5. He returns to this analysis from 2019 to 2025, in connection with Popper, Clouscard, contradictory identity and anti-Sovietism, without changing its terms.
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Season 13 · 6 Feb 2025On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Season 12 · 12 Dec 2023"I is another", or contradictory identity
Season 11 · 26 Apr 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology"
Season 6 · 3 Dec 2019#6.2 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism